Bill Romanowski - Racist Or Misunderstood?

[Bradical79]

96. I read a little about Doug Williams

I didn't really pay much attention to football at that age (I was 8), I'll have to check youtube, see what's there. He did have some interesting comments in a couple articles I read. He talked about how Joe Gibbs was the only NFL coach to scout him as a QB despite finishing 4th in the Heisman race. Gibbs said he had perfect mechanics and a great football mind.

Williams also had some prophetic words regarding black QBs and the NFL, drawing a link between the types of QB the bigger colleges recruited and put into passing roles and how that would put more black QBs in the NFL. Until pretty recently, black qbs were more liekly to be treated more as an extra running back that could occasionally throw when their running ability opened things up.

The college game has evolved in such a way now that qbs dubbed "athlete" or "dual threat" are running more offenses that require a high level of passing ability too. It's giving more black athletes opportunities to shine throwing the ball that weren't there before, and maybe causing coaches to coach up some of their athletic qbs to be better passers.